Not only history : proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Mario Liverani held in Sapienza-Università di Roma, Dipartimento di scienze dell'Antichità, 20-21 April 2009 / edited by Gilda Bartoloni and Maria Giovanna Biga in collaboration with Armando Bramanti.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sull'armonia tra la storia e l'archeologia del Vicino Oriente / Joaquin Maria Cordoba -- Weber-Polanyi-Sraffa: a consideration of modes of production / Johannes Renger -- The court banquets of Sargon II of Assyria: commensality as a positive affirmation of the (successful) hunt and battle / Irene J. Winter -- Was Uruk the first Sumerian city? / J.S. Cooper -- City and countryside in ancient Mesopotamia / Marc Van de Mieroop -- Mesopotamian cities in comparative perspective, briefly: an appreciation / Norman Yoffee -- Du texte a l'histoire / Jean-Marie Durand -- State and society: flight in the Near East during the old Babylonian period (20th-17th centuries bce) / Dominique Charpin -- The Ur III literary footprint and the historian / Piotr Michalowski -- On Egyptian elite and royal attitudes to other cultures, primarily in the late Bronze Age / John Baines -- The Garamantes and after: the biography of a central Saharan oasis 400 BC-AD 1900 / David Mattingly -- The "Kenite hypothesis" in the light of the excavations at Orvat Uza / Nadav Naaman -- "Ah, Assyria ..." (Isaiah 10:5ff.): Isaiah's Assyrian polemic revisited / Peter Machinist -- Measuring middle Assyrian grain (and sesame) / J.N. Postgate.

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In 2009, Mario Liverani celebrated his 70th birthday and retired from teaching at Sapienza-Università di Roma, although his book Antico Oriente: Storia, società, economia remains in wide use and is still foundational for anyone studying the ancient Near East. The Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell'Antichità, where Mario Liverani was a leading specialist since the department's inception, celebrated Liverani's milestone birthday and retirement with a conference held in his honor, and this book publishes the papers that were read at the conference on April 20-21.

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